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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. NSDb vs. Realm vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. NSDb vs. Realm vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storensdb.iorealm.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorensdb.io/­Architecturerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Teradata
Initial release20162016201720142005
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryR packages
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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